Wednesday, 1 January 2014

XLV. The Keeper of the Golden Bough

Happy New Year!

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Behold the last miniature I painted in 2013: the Keeper of the Golden Bough, a giant tree-man:

In one scenario the Doctor and the Countess will both try to get their
hands on the Golden Bough, a legendary alchemical ingredient. They will
know the Bough grows somewhere in the canopy of what was once a sacred
glade, but is now a collection of ancient gnarled trees. However, they will not know exactly which tree it is on, and they will
have to look for it while fighting each other and creatures of Hades.

Once someone finds the tree with the Golden Bough and tries to collect
it, its Keeper will awake: the old tree itself will uproot and start
atacking everyone around it. Only when the Keeper is brought to the
ground can the Bough be picked up...
We haven't yet written the exact rules, but you see the general idea.

A closeup of the "head", where the Golden Bough sits:

And a size comparison with what was until now the largest model in the Gardens: